They Used AI to Race-Swap Him…
24th September 2026
Stanford University took a real photograph of three students in a dining hall, ran it through artificial intelligence, and published the result as a “Welcome Home” banner. However, one of those students, Hispanic undergrad Billy Ramirez, class of 2027, was gone.
In his place stood an AI-generated Black woman. The two students next to him had their faces slimmed and altered. Clothing was even changed into Stanford merchandise.
This was not a student meme. It was official marketing from Residential & Dining Enterprises, the office that runs housing and dining for one of the richest universities in America – an institution that still soaks up hundreds of millions in taxpayer money while preaching ethics about “synthetic media.”
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Stanford’s own AI guidelines for marketing and communications are not vague. The university forbids creating or publishing AI-generated content that “falsely depicts Stanford people, events, research, facilities, or achievements.”